Chapter I

_Agincourt, or the English Bowmans Glory. To a pleasant new Tune._ Quoted in Heywood’s _King Edward IV._, and, therefore, popular before 1600. This ballad has been severely edited, and I omit several stanzas. It is printed in full in Hazlitt’s edition of Collier’s ‘Shakespeare’s Library,’ vol. i. (Reeves & Turner, 1825).